Home Video: Add these classics to your collection

5:56 PM,
Apr. 15, 2014

This undated publicity photo,provided by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, shows actors Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in the 1944 noir film 'Double Indemnity.' The movie was released on DVD, in a two-disc version, in August 2006. (AP Photo/Universal Studios Home Entertainment)

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Todd Hill
News Journal

Film noir buffs, take note. This is one very special week. Two of the genre's finest examples, "Double Indemnity" (1944, starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck) and "Touch of Evil" (1958, directed by and starring Orson Welles) arrive on Blu-ray. What makes these movies memorable, of course, are their twisty, black-hearted plots, but the films' shadowy cinematography should transfer spectacularly to this format. These are must-have additions to any cinephile's library.New movies

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